Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Cliff Mintz, and Michael Schmidt. On episode #9 of the podcast This Week in Microbiology, Vincent, Cliff, Elio, and Michael review the outbreak of bloody diarrhea and hemolytic uremic syndrome in Germany caused by Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli O104:H4. [powerpress url=”http://traffic.libsyn.com/twimshow/TWiM009.mp3″] Click the arrow above to play, or right click to download TWiM …
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Stan Maloy, Andreas Baümler, Nicole Dubilier, and Paul Rainey. Vincent, Michael, and Stanley recorded episode #8 of the podcast This Week in Microbiology live at the 2011 ASM General Meeting in New Orleans, with guests Andreas Baümler, Nicole Dubilier, and Paul Rainey. They spoke about how pathogens benefit from disease, symbioses …
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Margaret McFall-Ngai, Cliff Mintz, Elio Schaecter, and Michael Schmidt. On episode #7 of the podcast This Week in Microbiology, Vincent, Cliff, Elio, Margaret, and Michael discuss programmed cell death in E. coli, and the daily synthesis and degradation of enzymes needed for photosynthesis and nitrogen fixation by cyanobacteria. [powerpress url=”http://traffic.libsyn.com/twimshow/TWiM007.mp3″] Click the arrow …
TWiM 7 – Cycles of life and death, light and dark Read More »
The General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology will take place in New Orleans from 21-24 May 2011. This annual meeting covers fundamental microbial cell biology, genetics and physiology, environmental and applied microbiology, microbial ecology, pathogenesis, clinical microbiology, and infectious diseases. This year both This Week and Virology and This Week in Microbiology will be broadcast …
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Cliff Mintz, Michael Schmidt, and Elio Schaecter On episode #6 of the podcast This Week in Microbiology, Vincent, Cliff, Michael and Elio review the use of bacteriophages to manage infections, and the presence of antibiotic resistance genes in bacteriophages from urban sewage and river water. [powerpress url=”http://traffic.libsyn.com/twimshow/TWiM006.mp3″] Click the arrow above to play, …
TWiM 6: Antibacterial therapy with bacteriophage: Reality or fiction? Read More »
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Cliff Mintz, Michael Schmidt, and Ronald Atlas. Vincent, Cliff, Michael and Ron discuss the genome sequqnce of a mercury-methylating bacterium and the antimicrobial effects of nanoparticles. [powerpress url=”http://traffic.libsyn.com/twimshow/TWiM005.mp3″] Click the arrow above to play, or right click to download TWiM #5 (52.5 MB .mp3, 76 minutes). Subscribe to TWiM (free) on iTunes, Zune …
TWiM 5: Mercury-methylating Desulfovibrio and antimicrobial nanoparticles Read More »
